The Coroner starts in a strip-club as the various silicone enhanced girls go about their business. One such girl named Holly has finished for the night, as she walks to her car she is attacked & murdered. Emma (Jane Longenecker) is a high profile lawyer who defends the needy including prostitutes like her friend Nadine (Christine Burke) who also becomes a victim of the unknown serial killer. While out jogging Emma is kidnapped & tortured by Dr. Leon Uraski (Dean St. Louis), the serial killer himself. Emma manages to escape & tells the police but they refuse to believe her when they discover that she is accusing the state coroner. Everyone thinks Emma made it up so she decides to take the law into her own hands & turn the tables on Uraski...
Directed by Brian Katkin who also edited it, Juan A. Mas & the dreaded Alan Smithee (a pseudonym chosen by a director who doesn't want his/her name on the credits) The Coroner is an absolutely awful film, it's as simple & straight forward as that. The script by Geralyn Ruane is crap, it's slow, deeply uninteresting, unentertaining & a complete waste of 90 odd minutes of my, your or indeed anyone's life. I don't want to even think about this thing anymore, the character's are poor, things happen very abruptly, it's all very choppy & at the end of the day very unsatisfying in any way. The only mildly original aspect to The Corner is that he chooses his victims because they had attempted to commit suicide & he feels cheated out of performing their autopsies, this basic yet intriguing idea has potential but it isn't used to any great effectiveness & it appears that virtually every other person has attempted suicide.
Directors Katkin, Mas & Smithee do nothing to to ease the pain of watching The Coroner as it's poorly made & has no real redeeming features. Large chunks of other films by the same production company are included, for instance Slumber Party Massacre (1982) & it's sequels as well as other's. There isn't much blood or gore apart from some dead bodies & blood.
Technically the film is poor, whenever Emma has to talk to her secretary it's always in a car park. The cinematography is of camcorder quality & as a whole it's a badly made film throughout. The acting is also of a very low calibre.
The Coroner is a rubbish film, it has no real entertainment value & all the bad reviews are true including mine. I wonder who 'Alan Smithee' actually is, at least there's a slim chance he/she might still be working.
Directed by Brian Katkin who also edited it, Juan A. Mas & the dreaded Alan Smithee (a pseudonym chosen by a director who doesn't want his/her name on the credits) The Coroner is an absolutely awful film, it's as simple & straight forward as that. The script by Geralyn Ruane is crap, it's slow, deeply uninteresting, unentertaining & a complete waste of 90 odd minutes of my, your or indeed anyone's life. I don't want to even think about this thing anymore, the character's are poor, things happen very abruptly, it's all very choppy & at the end of the day very unsatisfying in any way. The only mildly original aspect to The Corner is that he chooses his victims because they had attempted to commit suicide & he feels cheated out of performing their autopsies, this basic yet intriguing idea has potential but it isn't used to any great effectiveness & it appears that virtually every other person has attempted suicide.
Directors Katkin, Mas & Smithee do nothing to to ease the pain of watching The Coroner as it's poorly made & has no real redeeming features. Large chunks of other films by the same production company are included, for instance Slumber Party Massacre (1982) & it's sequels as well as other's. There isn't much blood or gore apart from some dead bodies & blood.
Technically the film is poor, whenever Emma has to talk to her secretary it's always in a car park. The cinematography is of camcorder quality & as a whole it's a badly made film throughout. The acting is also of a very low calibre.
The Coroner is a rubbish film, it has no real entertainment value & all the bad reviews are true including mine. I wonder who 'Alan Smithee' actually is, at least there's a slim chance he/she might still be working.